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Certificate – X, U, PG, R, G (from the film certificates) Charged – ION. Charlie – C (NATO phonetic alphabet) Chartered accountant – CA. Chief – CH. Chlorine – CL (chemical symbol) Chromosome – X or Y. Church – CH or CE (Church of England) or RC (Roman Catholic) Circa – C.
Mater. Today. Materials Today is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, website, and journal family. The parent journal was established in 1998 and covers all aspects of materials science. It is published by Elsevier and the editors-in-chief are Jun Lou (Rice University) and Gleb Yushin (Georgia Institute of Technology). [1]
AFUE— annual fuel utilization efficiency. BTL—building tightness limit (building tightness) CDH—cooling degree hours (climate) CFL—compact fluorescent light. COP— coefficient of performance. CRI—color rendering index. EEM—Energy Efficient Mortgage. EER—energy efficiency ratio.
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was developed in the late 1940s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby, based on the constant creation ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Energy materials. Energy materials are used for energy harvesting, storage, and conversion. [1][2] Applications of energy materials include photovoltaics, as well as piezoelectronics. The study of energy materials is usually interdisciplinary, uniting materials scientists, chemists, physicists, biologists, and engineers.
Ammonia production takes place worldwide, mostly in large-scale manufacturing plants that produce 183 million metric tonnes [1] of ammonia (2021) annually. [2][3] Leading producers are China (31.9%), Russia (8.7%), India (7.5%), and the United States (7.1%). 80% or more of ammonia is used as fertilizer. Ammonia is also used for the production ...
Time. Watch, a time measurement device. In the past, a common time measuring instrument was the sundial. Today, the usual measuring instruments for time are clocks and watches. For highly accurate measurement of time an atomic clock is used. Stopwatches are also used to measure time in some sports.